[V8] Engine dying

[Bastian Preindl]

Hi,

hmm, what's not happening is an engine death... I'd suggest to check the 
ECU fault memory, clean all connectors in front of the engine (throttle 
valve sensor, idle sensor a.s.o.). You say you had lots of snow - 
possibly lack of fresh air? Or simply a connector which became wet? I 
had a quite similar behaviour when my ignition point sensor died, but 
that was on a 3B, not an ABH, and their Motronic differs. Also possbile: 
You got snow on your flywheel, what can be possible, and that drove one 
or both of the sensors (rpm and ignition point sensor) crazy. This could 
match with the symptoms and is also a reason why the behaviour was 
coming and going.

hth

Bastian


Dag Bøsterud schrieb:
> I was out driving the other day, it was snowing quite heavily, and I had to drive very
> slowly. I was taking a left turn, the engine was doing about 1000 rpm, and when
> I pressed the accellerator again, the car felt VERY sluggish. I took my foot of the
> accellerator again, the engine dropped to about 250 rpm, I tried to accellerate
> once more, and at first the car wouldn't respond and felt sluggish. After what felt
> like a decade, but was really only a couple of seconds it started to respond, 
> and after that the car has been acting just fine.
>
> ...any ideas as to what might have happened?
>